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In what may be classified as the best awful civil service job on the planet,
China is to begin recruiting an elite platoon of public lavatory sniffers –
“master noses” whose sense for the noisome will be like a sommelier’s for
the finest premier cru.

As the executive search gets under way, ideal candidates must be no older than
30 and still sensitive to minor variances of pong. They must be non-smokers,
said a spokesman for the Shanghai City Appearance and Environmental Quality
Monitoring Centre, and must bear not a trace of nasal inflammation.